The Tobacco Template - Revision history

Paul Herring at 11:50, 1 August 2025

2025-08-01T11:50:08Z

Paul Herring at 14:26, 11 May 2018

2018-05-11T14:26:07Z

Paul Herring: /* Gory Pictures/Warning Labels */

2017-06-28T12:16:59Z

Gory Pictures/Warning Labels

Paul Herring: /* Higher Taxes */

2016-12-13T21:37:29Z

Higher Taxes

Paul Herring: /* Co-op supermarket - Lads Mags - Aug 2013 */

2013-08-08T10:08:29Z

Co-op supermarket - Lads Mags - Aug 2013

Paul Herring: /* Co-op supermarket - Lads Mags - Aug 2013 */

2013-08-08T09:35:57Z

Co-op supermarket - Lads Mags - Aug 2013

Paul Herring: /* Plain Packaging (or Graphic Warnings) */

2013-08-07T14:19:52Z

Plain Packaging (or Graphic Warnings)

Paul Herring: /* Children’s Food Campaign - Sports Events - 26 July 2012 */

2013-08-06T11:45:13Z

Children’s Food Campaign - Sports Events - 26 July 2012

Paul Herring: /* Russian Governmnet - Proposal to ban children from public WiFi - 5 Oct 2012 */

2012-10-11T19:10:47Z

Russian Governmnet - Proposal to ban children from public WiFi - 5 Oct 2012

Paul Herring: /* Bans */

2012-10-11T17:30:47Z

Bans

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	[[Smoking Myths (ASH)\|It has been claimed]], by [[Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)\|ASH]] ([[Deborah Arnott]]), on February 2012 that:		[[Smoking Myths (ASH)\|It has been claimed]], by [[Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)\|ASH]] ([[Deborah Arnott]]), on February 2012 that:

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 {{quote|The tobacco industry and its stooges played the same slippery slope arguments over advertising bans, sports sponsorship bans and pack warnings . Ad bans started 35 years ago. No alcohol advertising ban and no momentum I’m aware of other than breaking the sport/alcohol nexus. So the slope ain’t very slippery folks ...<ref>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/30/bats-ad-campaign-against-plain-packs-pull-the-other-one/?wpmp_switcher=mobile#comment-138469</ref>}}
-Sadly, it is their statement that is false, not the domino theory. This page lists attempts by organisations and goverments to copy the 'tobacco template' in order to denormalise users of, or reduce consumption of, products.
+SIMON CHAPMAN: Look, if the slope is slippery, it's the most unslippery slippery dip I've ever seen in my life. We started banning tobacco advertising in 1976 and there has been no other commodity where there has been anything like a serious move to do what we've done with tobacco. And that's because there are great big differences between tobacco and all other commodities.
 ==General Controls==
 General stuff not covered below

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 ==Gory Pictures/Warning Labels==
 Gory pictures on packets are supposed to deter (potential) smokers. Typically the medical type photographs show nothing that smoking could have caused (perfectly white teeth affected by dental caries, totally blackened lungs when we know smokers lungs are used for transplants, etc.) Warnings usually go ignored.
 ===[[WCRF]] - Salt - 23 July 2012===

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 However, unintended consequences occur in the form of (a) increased sales on the black market and/or those (legitimately or not) obtaining their supplies from abroad and (b) increase in poverty because the hardest hit (and of which, demographically, tend to smoke more) are the poor who are either unwilling or unable to cut down or give up.
-[Minimum Pricing], while not increasing the tax-take to the government, is a form of this.
+[[Minimum Pricing]], while not increasing the tax-take to the government, is a form of this.
 === [[Mike Rayner]] - Department of Public Health at Oxford University - food - May 16 2012===

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 Titles such as Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo - known for their pictures of semi-naked models - have been given until September 9 to deliver the magazines in pre-sealed bags.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/story/1121505/lads-mags-told-to-cover-up-for-co-op-shops Lads' Mags Told To Cover Up For Co-op Shops] - Sky News</ref>}}
-One of the magazines refused:
+Two of the magazines immediately refused:
 {{quote|Nuts called it an "astonishing ultimatum".
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 "If we do sell a few less issues, then so be it," he said.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23609005 Nuts magazine rejects Co-op demand for 'modesty bags'] - The BBC</ref>}}
 === The Lancet - food/alcohol - 25 Aug 2012 ===

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	Titles such as Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo - known for their pictures of semi-naked models - have been given until September 9 to deliver the magazines in pre-sealed bags.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/story/1121505/lads-mags-told-to-cover-up-for-co-op-shops Lads' Mags Told To Cover Up For Co-op Shops] - Sky News</ref>}}		Titles such as Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo - known for their pictures of semi-naked models - have been given until September 9 to deliver the magazines in pre-sealed bags.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/story/1121505/lads-mags-told-to-cover-up-for-co-op-shops Lads' Mags Told To Cover Up For Co-op Shops] - Sky News</ref>}}
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		+	One of the magazines refused:
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		+	{{quote\|Nuts called it an "astonishing ultimatum".
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		+	Editor Dominic Smith told Newsbeat he had been "shocked" when he heard about it in the media.
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		+	He said if Co-op now removed Nuts from its shelves, it would encourage its readers to shop elsewhere.
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		+	"If we do sell a few less issues, then so be it," he said.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23609005 Nuts magazine rejects Co-op demand for 'modesty bags'] - The BBC</ref>}}

	=== The Lancet - food/alcohol - 25 Aug 2012 ===		=== The Lancet - food/alcohol - 25 Aug 2012 ===

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 ==[[Plain packaging|Plain Packaging]] (or [[Graphic Warnings]])==
 Plain packaging is claimed to reduce the appeal of cigarettes. None of the studies (since it has not been put into practice yet) have conclusively proved that this is the case. Graphic warnings likewise are intended to reduce the appeal. Most are ignored by smokers.
 === The Lancet - food/alcohol - 25 Aug 2012 ===

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 According to its authors the Children’s Food Campaign, the junk food companies have been given a global platform by London 2012 despite contributing only around 2 per cent of the International Olympic Association’s income.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/london-2012-cocacola-mcdonalds-and-cadbury-given-unrivalled-platform-to-promote-unhealthy-brands-at-olympics-7976569.html</ref>}}
-[[Children’s Food Campaign]] is a part of Sustain - an 'alliance' partially funded from grants from government and government related sources<ref>http://www.sustainweb.org/about/</reF>. For the financial year ending 2011, of £2.1M income, at least £0.64M was from either government directly, or government funded organisations. This number rises to at least £1.3M if funds from national lotteries are included.<ref>http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43%5C0001018643_ac_20110331_e_c.pdf</ref>
+[[Children’s Food Campaign]] is a part of [[Sustain]] - an 'alliance' partially funded from grants from government and government related sources<ref>http://www.sustainweb.org/about/</reF>. For the financial year ending 2011, of £2.1M income, at least £0.64M was from either government directly, or government funded organisations. This number rises to at least £1.3M if funds from national lotteries are included.<ref>http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43%5C0001018643_ac_20110331_e_c.pdf</ref>
 === UK Doctors - alcohol - June 2012 ===

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 {{quote|But the issue is controversial and his opinions and standing are questioned by [[Dorothy Bishop]], professor of developmental neuropsychology at [[Oxford University]] who says that although this is an important topic, [[Aric Sigman|Sigman]]'s paper is not "an impartial expert review of evidence for effects on health and child development". '''"[[Aric Sigman]] does not appear to have any academic or clinical position, or to have done any original research on this topic'''," she said. "His comments about impact of screen time on brain development and empathy seem speculative in my opinion, '''and the arguments that he makes could equally well be used to conclude that children should not read books'''."<ref name="guardiankids" />}}
-=== Russian Governmnet - Proposal to ban children from public WiFi - 5 Oct 2012 ===
+=== Russian Government - Proposal to ban children from public WiFi - 5 Oct 2012 ===
 {{quote|The Communications and Press Ministry has proposed banning children from using Wi-Fi networks in public, potentially making cafes, restaurants and other locations providing the service responsible for enforcing the law.

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	{{quote\|But the issue is controversial and his opinions and standing are questioned by [[Dorothy Bishop]], professor of developmental neuropsychology at [[Oxford University]] who says that although this is an important topic, [[Aric Sigman\|Sigman]]'s paper is not "an impartial expert review of evidence for effects on health and child development". '''"[[Aric Sigman]] does not appear to have any academic or clinical position, or to have done any original research on this topic'''," she said. "His comments about impact of screen time on brain development and empathy seem speculative in my opinion, '''and the arguments that he makes could equally well be used to conclude that children should not read books'''."<ref name="guardiankids" />}}		{{quote\|But the issue is controversial and his opinions and standing are questioned by [[Dorothy Bishop]], professor of developmental neuropsychology at [[Oxford University]] who says that although this is an important topic, [[Aric Sigman\|Sigman]]'s paper is not "an impartial expert review of evidence for effects on health and child development". '''"[[Aric Sigman]] does not appear to have any academic or clinical position, or to have done any original research on this topic'''," she said. "His comments about impact of screen time on brain development and empathy seem speculative in my opinion, '''and the arguments that he makes could equally well be used to conclude that children should not read books'''."<ref name="guardiankids" />}}
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		+	=== Russian Governmnet - Proposal to ban children from public WiFi - 5 Oct 2012 ===
		+	{{quote\|The Communications and Press Ministry has proposed banning children from using Wi-Fi networks in public, potentially making cafes, restaurants and other locations providing the service responsible for enforcing the law.
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		+	An official with the ministry’s Federal Mass Media Inspection Service, known as Roskomnadzor, said the ban should apply to people under 18 years old.
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		+	Locations providing Wi-Fi access would be held legally responsible for implementing the rule, and failing to meet the proposed measure would result in a fine ranging from 20,000 rubles to 50,000 rubles ($640 to $1,600), Vedomosti reported Thursday.<ref>[http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=36293 Ministry Seeks to Shield Children From Public Wi-Fi] - St Petersburg Times</ref>}}

	=== Suffolk Police - UK - 'Super-strength beer and cider' - 26 Sep 2012 ===		=== Suffolk Police - UK - 'Super-strength beer and cider' - 26 Sep 2012 ===